Ezekiel 16:14-16
Holman Christian Standard Bible
14 Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor,(A) which I had bestowed on you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
15 “But you were confident in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame.(B) You lavished your sexual favors on everyone who passed by.(C) Your beauty became his.[a] 16 You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened![b]
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- Ezekiel 16:15 Hb obscure
- Ezekiel 16:16 Hb obscure
Ezekiel 16:14-16
New International Version
14 And your fame(A) spread among the nations on account of your beauty,(B) because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign Lord.(C)
15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by(D) and your beauty became his.(E) 16 You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places,(F) where you carried on your prostitution.(G) You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.[a]
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- Ezekiel 16:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
Ezekiel 16:14-16
King James Version
14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
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